Programmer’s Corner: Website Development
I was asked a while back about the steps involved in developing a website. While it may seem like a simple answer to come up with, there should always be…
Artificial Emotion for AI
Emotion can be categorized as: happy, sad, afraid, angry, trust, disgust, surprise, anticipation. These groups are from Plutchik’s wheel of emotions. He postulated that an entire spectrum of emotional states…
Things To Do With a Supercomputer
For the purpose of creating a task list, the definition of supercomputer can be loosely expanded to include clusters, grids, clouds and all forms of conglomeration of a large amount…
Are naming conventions really necessary when programming?
There is a lot of debate over this topic. Are naming conventions really worth it? Aren’t they a hassle to learn and use? Can’t you code quicker if you don’t…
A Limit to Intelligence
In Singularity theory, we often assume there is no limit to the growth of intelligence. That may not be an accurate assumption. While we cannot currently define a limiting factor,…
Issues and Consideration of GUI Development
What is a GUI? A graphical user interface (GUI) is an interface to a system that uses more than just text on the screen. It can use pointers (such as…
Interacting With Intelligent Software
As our software embeds more human intelligence and more human behavior, we can expect to interact with it in a more human fashion. At one point, in the beginning of…
If the World is a Program
When we first learn geography we learn about how the world first came into existence. Some say that the Earth owes it’s existence to a massive supernova while some others…
Beyond Turing
The historical standard for testing AIs for intelligence has been the Turing Test. But it can be argued that the Turing test only confirms a mimicry of human conversation and…
A Bit of Logic: Understanding Bytes and Bits
If you haven’t heard already, a byte is a sequence of eight binary units. These binary units are called bits. While this is no great secret, the functioning of bits…